On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 15:10, David Schmidt via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 4/12/21 1:00 PM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next... > >> I never did warm up to it the same way. > > > > Twas ever thus, no? > > A universal truth. > > > I remember an ad campaign for AIX when it was quite new... "We took > > UNIX and added millions of lines of code to it." (Or words to that > > effect.) To me and to a lot of other people, this did not sound like a > > good thing... > > The ad campaign I remember was "A disciplined merge of System V and BSD" > > This looks relevant, from 1989: > https://technologists.com/sauer/Convergence_of_AIX_and_4.3BSD.pdf
Thanks for that! I only ever worked with AIX in my first job -- 1988-1990. Never saw it again. I wish I'd learned a bit more now... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
